Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central, State of New York versus
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump, All trumpet oh old Trump. It was
Speaker 1: indicted last week for paying a porn star hush money.
Speaker 1: You know, Trump gotta be mad. He paid all that
Speaker 1: hush money. Didn't nobody hush. It's messed up. It's in
Speaker 1: the word hush sh But no affair, no affair has
Speaker 1: been less hushed than this one. Everybody know about this
Speaker 1: damn affair. That's uncontacted. Tribes in the Amazon who know
Speaker 1: that Trump bone Stormy Daniels. I do not know where
Speaker 1: the plane is, but I do know that Stormy Daniels
Speaker 1: spaint Trump with a magazine. Now excuse me said? Now
Speaker 1: look now, if you notice I did not do a
Speaker 1: native vaccine. I'm not trying to get canceled on my
Speaker 1: first stick. I am holding a spear my back, but
Speaker 1: I didn't do no accent. The point is Trump has
Speaker 1: been indicted, and tomorrow the circus is coming to town.
Speaker 2: New York City this morning, preparing to become the setting
Speaker 2: for an unprecedented legal and political drama as Donald Trump
Speaker 2: returns to face the criminal charges against him. Mister Trump
Speaker 2: expected to face some thirty separate charges that first ever
Speaker 2: filed against a former president in an indictment handed up
Speaker 2: last Thursday, still secret and under seal until his arraignment.
Speaker 2: Mister Trump's arraignment Tuesday will include being processed at the courthouse,
Speaker 2: with fingerprints and a DNA sample expected to be taken
Speaker 2: as well, but he likely won't be handcuffed and Secret
Speaker 2: Service agents will protect him at every turn.
Speaker 1: That's right, Trump's got to provide a DNA sample, which,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, that's kind of how he
Speaker 1: got in his mess in the first place. Upside with
Speaker 1: Trump's DNA, the upside with Trump's DNA not an NYPD
Speaker 1: could probably solve a bunch the cold cases from navies.
Speaker 1: Why are they arraigning him like he's a normal person.
Speaker 1: He't a normal person. Trump and a normal person. Normal
Speaker 1: people don't bring the Secret Service to get arrested. And
Speaker 1: to be honest, I kind of feel sorry for the
Speaker 1: Secret Service agents. How you get assigned to a former president.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to be going to baseball games and windsurfing.
Speaker 1: You get a signed to Trump. You gotta go to ratus.
Speaker 1: You gotta take a shak for this man. You gotta
Speaker 1: taste test of toilet wine. Make sure they poison you.
Speaker 1: Gotta dig the escape tunnel, then duck the dirt in
Speaker 1: a softball field. I'll never forget the day Donald Trump
Speaker 1: showed up on the guy with shiit Secret Service agents.
Speaker 1: He thought I was then causing. But Morgan Freeman's terrible.
Speaker 1: I gotta work on. But it's not all bad for Trump.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 1: According to reports, He's already raised five million dollars since
Speaker 1: the news dropped on Thursday. Five five million dollars. This
Speaker 1: man is balling five million dollars. Do you know how
Speaker 1: many cigarettes that'll get you in prison? Honestly, this might
Speaker 1: be teaching this man the wrong lesson. Trump gonna start
Speaker 1: telling people to snitch on him for other crimes he did,
Speaker 1: just so he can get that bag too. Trump will
Speaker 1: be the first man in history to pay unhush money. Well,
Speaker 1: going to jail might be the new way to fundraise
Speaker 1: if you're a politician. Hillary probably sitting around like, hell,
Speaker 1: five million dollars, shit, maybe they should have locked me up.
Speaker 1: And Trump's supporters aren't just supporting him with donations, They
Speaker 1: sound like they ready to do whatever it takes to
Speaker 1: avenge him.
Speaker 4: After Trump's indictment, some on social media, called for war
Speaker 4: and said it's time for a real insurrection. This thing
Speaker 4: opens up a whole Pandora's box here, And I don't
Speaker 4: really think the left understands what they're getting themselves into.
Speaker 5: It almost feels like they're pushing the population to react.
Speaker 5: We think they're demoralized and passive.
Speaker 1: Let's see if they really are.
Speaker 5: I'm probably at the best time to give it career
Speaker 5: or fifteen, and I think most people know that.
Speaker 6: They are agitating for unrest, that that's the only way
Speaker 6: to interpret this. I'm ready for whatever's next, and I
Speaker 6: hope every other man out there watching this show, I
Speaker 6: hope you're ready for whatever's next. If that's what they want,
Speaker 6: let's let's let's get to it.
Speaker 1: That look. Look, I can't speak for all the mother
Speaker 1: folks we just saw, but I'll but tell you this much.
Speaker 1: When a black man wearing a leather jacket heen fing around,
Speaker 1: I'm going doubt the motherfolks if you won't, but do
Speaker 1: not doubt this man. Look at them looking like Blade's granddaddy.
Speaker 1: Probably got the sword right down under the damn seat.
Speaker 1: But you got to give it up to these Trump supporters. Man,
Speaker 1: you got to give them credit. They talking about showing
Speaker 1: up to the courthouse, showing up to the courthouse knowing
Speaker 1: that the NYPD will be there, and the NYPD will
Speaker 1: be ready. Look, I don't know if you've seen the
Speaker 1: footage of the NYPD, but they will pass. They made
Speaker 1: the playoffs every year. But you know, the NYPD, they
Speaker 1: might not beat these MAGA protesters too bad. Cops might
Speaker 1: recognize some of them from doing January sixth together. But
Speaker 1: but don't clap for the police going to January sixth.
Speaker 1: But as passionate as Republicans are, you got to give
Speaker 1: them credit. This case is being quarterbacked by a black
Speaker 1: district attorney and not once have they called him the inward.
Speaker 1: That's excuse me, one, excuse me one sick here. I'm
Speaker 1: very proud of y'all. You're very angry about this, but
Speaker 1: at no point have you gone all the way to
Speaker 1: publicly using the in word. And that's growth. And I
Speaker 1: want you to know that I see you, and I
Speaker 1: see your progress. And that's just a little pat on
Speaker 1: the back from your old uncle Roy. Now to me,
Speaker 1: here's what's weird about the reaction from Trump supporters. They're
Speaker 1: getting ready for revenge. For what Democrats did to Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: But they're also celebrating what Democrats did to Donald Trump
Speaker 1: because they think it will help them win the election.
Speaker 1: So to help me break that down a little bit
Speaker 1: more on that, return to the homie, Runnie Chang, Runnie Chang.
Speaker 1: Got to see you running, going to see you running?
Speaker 1: Now running.
Speaker 6: Running?
Speaker 1: Can you believe that some people think getting arrested is
Speaker 1: actually going to help Trump?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because they're right. Of course, get arrested is gonna
Speaker 4: help Trump. You know how bad ass he's gonna look
Speaker 4: when he walks into the Republican debate with a face tattoo. Now,
Speaker 4: Trump's got street credit. You're black, you know what that.
Speaker 1: Is, Ronnie. Jail is not an instant path to greatness.
Speaker 1: You know, jail, it's not an instant path to greatness.
Speaker 1: You're an Asian. You're smarter than this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I am Asian, which is why I know
Speaker 4: Trump is a is gonna be a modern Now he'll
Speaker 4: be like the Nelson Mandela of the people who put
Speaker 4: Nelson Mandela in jail. Everyone thinks they want upstanding leaders,
Speaker 4: but what they really want a bad boy who don't
Speaker 4: give a fuck. Bill Clinton got a blow job in
Speaker 4: the Oval office. And that's still the most popular thing
Speaker 4: you ever did.
Speaker 1: No, No, that's not that's not true. That's not true. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: name one other thing he did. Then he played saxophone
Speaker 1: on our Cineo hall.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's just another form of blowing. Okay, face it, Roy,
Speaker 4: it's twenty twenty three. Being indicted now makes you a
Speaker 4: stronger candidate. It's like being a rapper or Martha Stewart.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 4: In fact, I'm calling it. Trump is now the official
Speaker 4: front runner for presidents.
Speaker 1: Don't say that. Don't say that. Don't say that.
Speaker 4: I just said it on The Daily Show with Roy Regin.
Speaker 1: Don't say with Roy Reja, just say the data Shop.
Speaker 4: The Daily Show with Royer Jr. Is officially says no, no, no,
Speaker 4: that Donald Trump is now the lead candidate in the
Speaker 4: presidential racist.
Speaker 1: Seriously, that's your prediction? Trump Lands election already done?
Speaker 4: Yeah, unless Joe Biden can also get indicted for something
Speaker 4: even crazier. I mean, I'm talking Hunter Biden crazy. Okay,
Speaker 4: none of this classified documents bullshit. No one gets a
Speaker 4: fuck about documents. Okay, No, I'm saying, at the next
Speaker 4: cabinet meeting, Biden's got to beat Pete Budhajest to death.
Speaker 1: Oh this, how about this?
Speaker 4: You could he could steal the nuclear bomb and use
Speaker 4: it to beat Pete Budajes to death. You should give
Speaker 4: me a medal for saying that twice, or Biden do
Speaker 4: something else illegal?
Speaker 1: Okay, Roy, you're black. Okay, name some crimes. Grant the
Speaker 1: photo Possesson would intend to distribute. Writing bad checks will
Speaker 1: be your Wait a minute, mate, don't make me suggest
Speaker 1: crowns for the president.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: You're saying, in order to win, Biden has to fight
Speaker 1: fire with fire.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, that's that's a great pitch. Okay, He's just
Speaker 4: set the White House on fire, right with with Pete
Speaker 4: Buddha jets inside.
Speaker 3: Okay, So, so.
Speaker 4: Biden has to one up Trump.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: If Trump goes to prison, Biden has to go to solitary,
Speaker 4: get the death penalty, and then, just to be safe,
Speaker 4: go to Hell. Okay. So basically, whoever goes to Hell
Speaker 4: first will win the election, because that's democracy.
Speaker 1: Baby, Okay, we gotta go to hell. They gotta go
Speaker 1: to hell. You make Hell sound like a swing speak.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. Hell is like Ohio, except not as bad.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's enough change. Everybody, give it up a run
Speaker 1: of show. Today was trump arraignment Day. He was breaking
Speaker 1: the years in a remarkable chapter of American history. For
Speaker 1: the first time, a former president faced a judge in
Speaker 1: a criminal courtroom on charges he broke the law. And
Speaker 1: it happened right here in New York City. Former President
Speaker 1: Trump leads not guilty to thirty four counts of falsifying
Speaker 1: business records related to hush money payments.
Speaker 2: The photograph is stark and historic as we look at it.
Speaker 7: Donald Trump, that's a man who looks like a defendant.
Speaker 7: You know, the former president.
Speaker 4: I've seen that face not many times.
Speaker 1: He's he looked somber. Look at you. Look at your ass. Now,
Speaker 1: the got yours.
Speaker 6: Tough.
Speaker 1: You spent all that money talking about the judge and
Speaker 1: talked about the d A or I'm gonna march in
Speaker 1: the courtroom and I'm gonna shut your ass up. Look
Speaker 1: at how sad Trump looks. My man looked like somebody
Speaker 1: told him his dog dotter that Mike Pence is still alive.
Speaker 1: And you can talk all the shit you want, but
Speaker 1: I'm telling your baby, the moment you in that courtroom,
Speaker 1: that shit get real. Trumps sitting there. Trump's sitting there like, wow,
Speaker 1: y'all really gonna do this too?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 7: And he alone.
Speaker 1: Ain't none of your boys around no more. You gave
Speaker 1: them all pardons, and everybody know you don't pardon all
Speaker 1: your partners. You gotta leave one in jails. They have
Speaker 1: somebody to talk to. And on top of all that, this, this,
Speaker 1: this is how I know Trump did something. I don't
Speaker 1: know what he gives to you, but he did something.
Speaker 1: To Look at that outfit first day of caught here
Speaker 1: in a suit that don't even fit. Why would you
Speaker 1: do that? Gwinneth Paltrow showed you the cheek cold boy.
Speaker 1: You got to dress like you don't give them. You
Speaker 1: got to dress for court like you on your to
Speaker 1: somewhere else. Look at Gwyneth Palchow. You can't convict me.
Speaker 1: These glasses are called ers, Cardie. Is that how you
Speaker 1: say it? I don't know. I can't afford nice glasses. So,
Speaker 1: as you can imagine, it was a crazy day in
Speaker 1: New York and the city was ready for anything. Barricades
Speaker 1: were laid out, every police officer was on duty. Even
Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams said he might not go to the
Speaker 1: club tonight. Just in case y'all need them, because you
Speaker 1: know he'd be in the club. He got to keep
Speaker 1: the phone on Vibrart, but call him twice so you
Speaker 1: know it's an emergency and the cops. I'll get the NYPD.
Speaker 1: The NYPD this, they were right to set up all
Speaker 1: the barricades. Trump supporters swarm downtown Manhattan and filled the
Speaker 1: streets with red, white, and blue. It was like a
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican Day parade for people who want to deport
Speaker 1: Puerto Ricans. And to the police's credit, to the police's credit,
Speaker 1: to that credit, they handled it perfectly. They kept everybody
Speaker 1: on both sides far enough apart so nobody got hurt,
Speaker 1: but close enough so they could still roast the ship
Speaker 1: out of each other. A yes, ah, yes. The classics
Speaker 1: do nothing win an argument faster than a your mama.
Speaker 1: It hit like I said, just like your mama. You
Speaker 1: lose no matter what you said. Donald Trump was a
Speaker 1: political prisoner, unfairly talking about the criminal justices. Your mama, bitch,
Speaker 1: that's how it hit you. You bleed out. But it
Speaker 1: was a crazy scene downtown. It was wild and one
Speaker 1: of the people making it crazy was Marjorie Taylor Green.
Speaker 1: Margaret Taylor Green, MTG. Swung down to the courthouse double
Speaker 1: Parker broomstick and took part, took part in the festivities,
Speaker 1: and today she offered a defense of the President that
Speaker 1: I've never heard before. President Trump is joining some of
Speaker 1: the most incredible people in history being arrested today.
Speaker 5: Nelson Mandela was arrested, serve time in prison.
Speaker 1: Jesus, Jesus was arrested. Jesus, Jesus, That's what I'm thinking too,
Speaker 1: Like Jesus, what the hell is wrong with this lady?
Speaker 1: How you gonna compare Donald Trump to Jesus. First of all,
Speaker 1: Jesus walked on water. Donald Trump can barely walk on land. Now,
Speaker 1: the crazy thing about all of this today is that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump didn't even have to come to New York.
Speaker 1: He could have done the whole arrayment at the crib
Speaker 1: because apparently they gave him the option to be arraigned
Speaker 1: over zoom, you know, like Nelson Mandela and Jesus. But
Speaker 1: I get it. I completely get why Trump didn't do
Speaker 1: it over zoom. One, he'd have got on camera. They
Speaker 1: would have just found more classified documents in the background. Two,
Speaker 1: Trump wants publicity. Look at how he came out of
Speaker 1: Trump Tower this morning, giving the black power fist like
Speaker 1: a real political prisoner. He lives the shit like this.
Speaker 1: Hell Trump liable to show up the court every day
Speaker 1: dancing on top of a car like Michael Jackson. That
Speaker 1: document in the media. Man, the media what they do?
Speaker 1: They played right along with it, giving us wall to
Speaker 1: wall coverage even when there was absolutely nothing to talk about.
Speaker 1: I will turn to you and show you He'll be coming.
Speaker 4: Out the side door of Trump Tower there, so there
Speaker 4: is a sense of antis the patient that his movement
Speaker 4: is coming.
Speaker 3: You can see some of the traffic heading northbound there,
Speaker 3: and I'm not sure, I'm much.
Speaker 7: I can't remember off the top of my head of
Speaker 7: Fifth Avenue is one.
Speaker 1: Way right his northbound out I think to the south,
Speaker 1: so that's not Fifth Avenue. I checked ways just before
Speaker 1: we came in.
Speaker 3: It showed that that was the fastest route.
Speaker 2: We expect him to enter through. And I think that
Speaker 2: was just him. Gillian, did you guys just see the
Speaker 2: former president walk out? Or is that just me?
Speaker 1: There's Donald Trump right there.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry that we just saw Donald.
Speaker 5: Trump overhearing some radio traffic here at any moment, now
Speaker 5: see the former president walk through those doors.
Speaker 7: So there are many doors into the courtroom. And it's
Speaker 7: not just this one door. There are side doors and
Speaker 7: there's a back door.
Speaker 2: Photographer Evan shumrack Laser focused on that front door.
Speaker 7: And many hallways that lead to each door.
Speaker 4: If he does go through those doors, he will come
Speaker 4: by the camera.
Speaker 7: The judge comes in a different door, a jury comes
Speaker 7: in even another door. A defendant who's incarcerated comes in
Speaker 7: a different door. The public comes in the main door.
Speaker 7: So there are many doors.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so let me get this straight. You're telling
Speaker 1: me the courthouse has multiple doors, and different people come
Speaker 1: through different doors, and then those doors getting neck to
Speaker 1: other doors, and then those all the doors. Hey man,
Speaker 1: I'm learning so much about the legal system. Thank you
Speaker 1: Cable News. Now those doors, buildings got doors, and shit,
Speaker 1: he learned stuff. Now here's what bothered me about today.
Speaker 1: I'll say this, Donald Trump deserves a fair trial. But
Speaker 1: I also want Trump to get the full American criminal
Speaker 1: justice experience, which is not what happened today. My man
Speaker 1: got to schedule his visit to the courthouse like he
Speaker 1: the cable man. Trump called the court a listen. I
Speaker 1: be down to the jail Tuesday between ten and two.
Speaker 1: Just make sure you get that. Then once Trump got there,
Speaker 1: there were no handcuffs, there were no mug shots, there
Speaker 1: were no purp walks. Well for Trump it would be
Speaker 1: a purp waddle, but you understand. But you know that
Speaker 1: doesn't make the point. My point is I'm disappointed because
Speaker 1: today shows you how humane our courts could be. So
Speaker 1: many people get dragged into this legal system, and it's humiliating.
Speaker 1: You get handcuffed, you get gaukeed at, You wait days,
Speaker 1: sometimes months for an arrangement. Then you go into a
Speaker 1: building through one of those many doors. You get to
Speaker 1: a room. They strip you naked, they spread your ash cheeks,
Speaker 1: They make you cough twice, which I never understood the
Speaker 1: second cough. But the first cough. I get. One cough
Speaker 1: is enough to know whether or not I got drugs
Speaker 1: in my booty. The second cof is for you. That's wrong.
Speaker 1: Am I sharing too much with y'all? Right now? I
Speaker 1: thought this was I thought I could open up to y'all.
Speaker 1: Apparently No. My point is for the sake of this country,
Speaker 1: I hope that Donald Trump gets a swift trial, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean he should get to use the tsa
Speaker 1: pre check lane. But here's the good news. The New
Speaker 1: York investigation is just one of many into the former president,
Speaker 1: so we'll have plenty of other opportunities to get him
Speaker 1: arrested correctly. So Georgia got priminal opportunities. So State of Georgia,
Speaker 1: if you're listening, when you finally get Donald Trump in
Speaker 1: your courtroom, make sure he coughs twice.
Speaker 5: Tuesday's arrangement of former President Donald Trump in New York
Speaker 5: was a first for the nation and brought out the passionate,
Speaker 5: the sensibly dressed, and the kind of men who really
Speaker 5: disappoint their mothers. While I had fun getting into the scrum,
Speaker 5: I was surprised to find there were people who wanted
Speaker 5: to have meaningful conversations about the justice system.
Speaker 3: I don't believe what we're what you're seeing is justice.
Speaker 5: You don't believe in the grand jury process. I don't
Speaker 5: believe if this was a civilian it would I mean,
Speaker 5: he is a civilian, he's a person, but New York address,
Speaker 5: so he shouldn't go through the grand jury process. I
Speaker 5: believe it should be dismissed because because I uh, I'm going.
Speaker 1: By general gut feeling the way I.
Speaker 7: See it is.
Speaker 1: You know, if the government is stepping over their bombs
Speaker 1: and doing what they're doing here in dugging Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: This happens all the time.
Speaker 5: What stuff paid off aboard Star and then fudging business records.
Speaker 7: I mean, come on, it's his own money for one thing.
Speaker 5: And out of all the cases up against Donald Trump,
Speaker 5: this is probably the weakest one.
Speaker 1: Probably the weakest.
Speaker 2: There's no evidence to bring about this prosecution, so.
Speaker 5: We don't know that until there's a grand jury. Who
Speaker 5: can then see that evidence.
Speaker 1: You know, listen, I think that everyone, everyone should get
Speaker 1: get a fair trial.
Speaker 5: So you would afford a grand jury looking at all
Speaker 5: of the evidence so that they decide to indict Donald Trump. Well,
Speaker 5: then we will let that happen.
Speaker 2: Sure, certainly if there's evidence, you know, every every piece
Speaker 2: of evidence should be here.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what happened here.
Speaker 5: There's an excitement in the he feels almost like the
Speaker 5: American version of a royal event at the king to
Speaker 5: bourne Star Pater and then lied about him, and that's
Speaker 5: the records.
Speaker 2: Like an American coronation.
Speaker 5: And then the Donald arrived, the former leader of the
Speaker 5: free world was now possibly in the same room as
Speaker 5: a group of recently busted subway master Baders.
Speaker 1: I think he got the medium.
Speaker 5: You think he orchestrated all of this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because his falls, like DeSantis was sort of was risy.
Speaker 2: Now he's taking all the air out of the world room.
Speaker 7: Now Trump at twenty sixteen, he.
Speaker 2: Had all the media, Fox News, CNN was farmed. Now
Speaker 2: they don't cover him anymore. Now they have to get
Speaker 2: it arrested.
Speaker 5: The smartest thing they could do.
Speaker 2: He's like one of the smartest guys. Said, I know you're.
Speaker 5: Talking about the man who's getting a finger run it
Speaker 5: inside that building right now.
Speaker 1: I think they fingerprint on my red They have his DNA.
Speaker 5: That guy's left the DNA in a lot of different places.
Speaker 2: This is like the seventh time.
Speaker 5: Could Trump run his electric get made for prison?
Speaker 2: You can do anything? Trump?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that doesn't wade you and anything, even if they
Speaker 4: give him thirty four felonies.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just like Trump, he's untouching for him,
Speaker 2: He's a touch except.
Speaker 5: The person who's literally touched his fingerprints. Have you donated
Speaker 5: for the Trump campaign since he was.
Speaker 2: I haven't thought about it up until now, but I
Speaker 2: guess sign I can tear you.
Speaker 5: Trump has fundraised like over five million dollars for this,
Speaker 5: So in some ways it's almost like he's getting paid
Speaker 5: to have sex. Is he a sex worker?
Speaker 1: I mean it's cool, there's no judgment. Look, I think
Speaker 1: you guys are great. I love senses of humor.
Speaker 2: But in many ways you should appreciate this is not funny.
Speaker 1: Because they're going after Trump today, They'll go after me tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and then they'll go after you.
Speaker 5: Did you pay off a port star and then live
Speaker 5: I dup this record?
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, that's gotta be frighting.
Speaker 5: I guess he could come for us. And unless we've
Speaker 5: been involved in hutch Buddy payments and then lying on
Speaker 5: our business records and then I've been using that when
Speaker 5: it comes to the campaign as well, Like, I guess
Speaker 5: that could happen anybody.
Speaker 1: Perhaps we don't need justice to be blushed. Just friend, lady,
Speaker 1: I guess tonight represents the great state of New Jersey
Speaker 1: in the UNI United State Senate. Please welcome Senator Corey Booker,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, New Jersey in the bill.
Speaker 3: Who I think you look so good behind that desk?
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, brother, I pro shake here, let me
Speaker 1: sit here.
Speaker 3: I'm not in New Jersey. But can I just say
Speaker 3: the end of the Daily Show speed dating, Let's just
Speaker 3: settle and go permanent right now?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Hang on now, we got to see what
Speaker 1: else the Daily Show bring to the table in the relationship.
Speaker 1: But you just can't commit right to what Let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about the elephant in the room that
Speaker 1: just landed in New York City. Now in Washington, what
Speaker 1: is your feeling right now with everything with the Trump
Speaker 1: and Diamond? How much do you think this indictment is
Speaker 1: going to paralyze bipartisanship on actually getting laws pass in
Speaker 1: the next year because Trump has a way of sucking
Speaker 1: the wind out of conversations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at the Senate. I don't think it's going
Speaker 3: to have much effect at all. You've heard Mitch McConnell's
Speaker 3: stay eerily silent. But I think this is a moment
Speaker 3: in American history that is pretty significant. Look, I believe
Speaker 3: deeply in democratic principles. I believe in the idea of
Speaker 3: the rule of law. But we've had a nation that
Speaker 3: hasn't lived up to those principles all the time. As
Speaker 3: Brian Stevenson says, who's his death penalty defender? He says,
Speaker 3: we have a criminal justice system that treats you better
Speaker 3: if you're rich and guilty then if you're poor and innocent.
Speaker 6: And so.
Speaker 3: For me, this is one of those tough moments. So
Speaker 3: Donald Trump has flaunted the rule of law for a
Speaker 3: significant amount of his career and did it in a
Speaker 3: bullying way, whether it was lock her Up or even
Speaker 3: the exonerated five, the Central Park five, even after they
Speaker 3: were exonerated, failing to acknowledge that it was a travesty
Speaker 3: of justice.
Speaker 1: So I.
Speaker 3: Think that the Senate is going to be fine. They're
Speaker 3: going to be people trying to find compromise get things done.
Speaker 3: But I do think this is one of those moments
Speaker 3: where there's a thirty four count indictment that we have
Speaker 3: to wait and see what's in it. I think that
Speaker 3: there's a lot of rushing to assume partisan positions in this.
Speaker 3: As a guy who believes in democracy, believes in the
Speaker 3: rural law, believes in due process, Let's let's see what happened.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then to that point of everybody rushing to
Speaker 1: choose a side, if that's what Republicans are saying public this.
Speaker 3: What do they even see the thirty four count?
Speaker 1: What are they saying behind closed doors. Is there is
Speaker 1: there a cafeterian de sendate? Do you have what are
Speaker 1: they saying in the cafeteria?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Man, you see that bullshit with the book.
Speaker 3: Look, you forget this. But Trump has been on trial
Speaker 3: twice in the Senate, and he has had Republicans and
Speaker 3: Democrats both parties. People in both parties voted to convict him.
Speaker 3: We didn't have enough to meet the threshold for conviction.
Speaker 3: But there are a lot of folks on both sides
Speaker 3: of the aisle that think that this is a guy
Speaker 3: who has caused so much damage to our political system.
Speaker 3: He has really shaken the foundations of our democracy. Ideas
Speaker 3: about our democracy we've taken for granted over the years.
Speaker 3: He has really threatened. Who would have thought that you'd
Speaker 3: be sitting there at your workplace and you'd be overrun
Speaker 3: by people storming the capital, raiving the Confederate flag, having
Speaker 3: T shirts celebrating the Holocaust and not to mention Viking Hatson.
Speaker 3: More so, this is this is this is a guy
Speaker 3: who has truly strained the very democracy of our of
Speaker 3: our nation, and we hope to hold them accountable for that.
Speaker 3: He's under investigation in multiple jurisdictions. This is a long
Speaker 3: thing to play out. I'm just one of these folks
Speaker 3: that came to Washington to focus on criminal justice reform
Speaker 3: because we have this nation where we still have people.
Speaker 3: You know, look, one out of every three incarcerated women
Speaker 3: on the planet Earth are in the United States of America.
Speaker 3: We incarcerate people at levels here that are outrageous. So he,
Speaker 3: to me, is not my central focus. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: let him tear me away from the important work we
Speaker 3: need to do in Washington right now.
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